fc7 should be f7

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 10 13:40:40 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 03:27 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Martin Marques wrote:
> >>> Benjamin Lewis escribió:
> >>>>>
> >>>> As has been mentioned before, f7 sorts incorrectly with fc6, so updates
> >>>> would fail to work properly.
> >>>> i.e. f7 sorts before fc6, when it should sort after.
> >>>
> >>> Why?
> >>>
> >>> 2.1-1.fc6 comes before 2.1-2.f7.
> >>
> >> All this has been discussed in length in fedora-devel list.
> >>
> >> Rahul
> >>
> > 
> > It is the first time that I heard the reason. I'm not subscribed to the 
> > devel list. (Either scorned when posting comment, mail ignored or just 
> > got bored.)
> > 
> 
> The archives are open to everyone even if you are not subsc reason for fc,7 eribed.
> 
> Rahul
> 
But it is time that someone admits the mistake was calling the
distribution f7 in the first place. As someone pointed out googling for
f7 is a nightmare, etc. 

Constancy in naming is a good thing. 
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